Collaborative Planning Grant: Building Capacity to Scale the Mentoring Math Scholars for Success Program

该项目将有助于国家对受过良好教育的科学家，数学家，工程师和技术人员的需求，通过加强合作和规划未来的轨道3 S-STEM提案，该提案将支持在加州州立大学系统的三个西班牙裔服务机构中表现出经济需求的高成就，低收入学生的保留和毕业：加州州立东湾，弗雷斯诺州立大学和斯坦尼斯劳斯州立大学。这三所大学为大量的学生提供服务，这些学生虽然符合佩尔助学金的条件，但需要长时间工作才能上得起大学。因此，低收入学生平均六年即可获得数学学士学位，尽管他们具有更快毕业的数学天赋。目前的辅导数学学者成功（M2 S2）计划，通过轨道2 S-STEM奖（1742236）在弗雷斯诺州资助的是显示，学生可以在四年内毕业，GPA为3.0+与适当的支持套件，包括奖学金，指导和社区建设活动。这项规划工作旨在建立能力，以改善和扩大M2 S2模型到加州东湾和斯坦尼斯劳斯州的方式，将服务于每个机构的独特学生群体。学生焦点小组和调查将进行，以促进了解学生在每个机构如何可以最好地通过M2 S2程序的支持。来自所有三个机构的代表将使用这些调查的结果和弗雷斯诺州立大学的M2 S2模型来制定多校区M2 S2计划的共同愿景。该项目的总体目标是加强合作，并为未来的轨道3提案做好准备，以增加低收入，高成就的本科生的STEM学位完成证明经济需要。该项目评估的主要组成部分将是确保编写并提交具有竞争力的第3轨道S-STEM提案，并对M2 S2计划进行适当修改，以符合每个机构潜在学者的需求。该项目将开发研究问题并确定数据流，以支持以M2 S2为中心的有效研究计划，因为它部署在三个参与机构中。该项目的一个重要目标是确定每个校区学生的确切需求，并制定计划，以确保M2 S2的并行实施既可以（1）帮助低收入学生在数学专业取得成功，又可以（2）提供其他机构可以遵循的指导方针，以改善为低收入学生提供的支持。 该项目由NSF的科学，技术，工程和数学奖学金计划资助，该计划旨在增加低收入学术人才的数量，这些学生表现出经济需求，并获得STEM领域的学位。它还旨在改善未来STEM工作者的教育，并产生关于低收入学生的学术成功，保留，转移，毕业和学术/职业道路的知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project will contribute to the national need for well-educated scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians by strengthening collaborations and planning for a future Track 3 S-STEM proposal that would support the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at three Hispanic-Serving Institutions in the California State University system: Cal State East Bay, Fresno State, and Stanislaus State University. These three institutions serve a significant number of students who, although Pell Grant eligible, need to work long hours to afford college. As a result, low-income students graduate with a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics in six years on average, despite having the mathematical talent to graduate sooner. The current Mentoring Math Scholars for Success (M2S2) program, funded through a Track 2 S-STEM award (1742236) at Fresno State is showing that students can graduate in four years and with a GPA of 3.0+ with the appropriate suite of supports, including scholarships, mentoring, and community-building activities. This planning effort aims to build the capacity to improve and scale the M2S2 model to Cal State East Bay and Stanislaus State in a way that will serve the unique student populations at each institution. Student focus groups and surveys will be conducted to advance understanding of how students at each institution can best be supported by an M2S2 program. A planning meeting with representatives from all three institutions will use results from these surveys and the M2S2 model at Fresno State to develop a shared vision of the multi-campus M2S2 program.The overall goal of this project is to strengthen collaborations and prepare for a future Track 3 proposal to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. The main component of the evaluation of this project will be to make sure that a competitive Track 3 S-STEM proposal is written and submitted, with appropriate modification to the M2S2 program that aligns with the needs of each institution’s potential scholars. This project will develop research questions and identify data streams to support an effective research program centered on M2S2 as it is deployed across the three participating institutions. An important goal of this project is to identify the precise needs of students at each campus and to generate a plan to ensure the parallel implementation of M2S2 can both (1) help low-income students succeed in the mathematics major, and (2) provide guidelines that other institutions can follow to improve supports offered for low-income students. This project is funded by NSF’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, which seeks to increase the number of low-income academically talented students with demonstrated financial need who earn degrees in STEM fields. It also aims to improve the education of future STEM workers, and to generate knowledge about academic success, retention, transfer, graduation, and academic/career pathways of low-income students.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.